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Damien Richard MartynBorn: 21 October 1971, Darwin, Northern TerritoryMajor Teams: Western Australia, Leicestershire, Australia. Known As: Damien Martyn Batting Style: Right Hand Bat Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium Test Debut: Australia v West Indies at Brisbane, 1st Test, 1992/93 Latest Test: Australia v England at Brisbane, 1st Test, 2002/03 ODI Debut: Australia v West Indies at Sydney, World Series, 1992/93 Latest ODI: Australia v Sri Lanka at Colombo (RPS), ICC Champions Trophy, 2002/03 First-class Debut: Western Australia v Victoria at Perth, 1990/91 Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy 1990 Leicestershire 1991 Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2002 Career Statistics:TESTS (including 07/11/2002) M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 29 46 9 1770 133 47.83 52.75 5 11 13 0 O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ Bowling 27 7 75 1 75.00 1-3 0 0 162.0 2.77 ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS (including 27/09/2002) M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 104 87 28 2333 144* 39.54 78.49 3 11 37 0 O M R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ Bowling 111.1 2 587 11 53.36 2-21 0 0 60.6 5.28 FIRST-CLASS (1990/91 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 156 264 38 11066 203* 48.96 34 56 129 2 O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ Bowling 516.5 136 1442 35 41.20 4-30 0 0 88.6 2.79 LIST A LIMITED OVERS (1991/92 - 2002/03; last updated 09/11/2002) M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St Batting & Fielding 186 163 41 5164 144* 42.32 7 31 67 0 O R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ Bowling 237 1183 40 29.57 3-3 0 0 35.5 4.99 - Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS. StatsGuru Filters for Damien MartynArticles about Damien Martyn
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Profile:A former member of the Australian Cricket Academy and a previous Australian under 19 captain, Damien Martyn is an aggressive middle order batsman. Whilst he is not particularly tall, he is nevertheless very upright at the crease and is an adventurous player, whose natural inclination is always to go on the attack and to punish loose bowling. For an Australian, he is also an unusually wristy batsman. On the back of a number of impressive performances for state team Western Australia, a measure of how well regarded he was as a young batsman came in his elevation to his country's Test team at the age of twenty-one. It was a taste of elite level cricket which was to last for a period in excess of twelve months before his unfortunate dismissal in the closing stages of the tension-laced Sydney Test against South Africa in 1994-95 spelled the end of his international ambitions for more than four years.Having continued to serve as a key figure in the Warriors' team in the intervening period (a reality highlighted by a brilliant Mercantile Mutual Cup campaign in 1997-98 which saw him break the record for the most runs by a player in a single domestic one-day season), Martyn won a recall to the national one-day side in 1998. It was from here that his career was re-ignited. Continued hard work at his game both physically and mentally led to appearances during the one-day tours of India, Pakistan and Sharjah, in the Wills International Cup in Bangladesh, and again at the 1999 World Cup in England. A further brightening of his position ensued when he adapted successfully to the task of scoring briskly in the middle and closing overs of several games in the Carlton and United Series of 1999-2000; in a six match series against New Zealand across the Tasman; and a three match battle in South Africa in April 2000. The New Zealand visit even saw him adapt to the responsibility of opening, which he did in the best possible style by carrying his bat to compile a defiant century while others crumbled around him in the final ODI at Auckland. On the same tour, the ongoing unavailability through injury of Ricky Ponting also paved the way for Martyn to reappear in the Test eleven in for the first time since his fateful Sydney appearance. In topping his team's averages and twice rescuing Australia from particularly precarious positions (most notably, with his unbeaten 89 in the Third Test at Hamilton), he showed during that series that there should now remain few reservations about his status as one of his nation's top contemporary players. (John Polack, July 2000) © 2000 CricInfo Ltd |
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